You Can’t Lose a Real Friend

During the course of our years together, Bob has run away from me twice. Both incidents happened early on during our time together when Bob got scared, first by a street entertainer and then by a very aggressive dog.

We were reunited on each occasion, but it didn’t mean the separations weren’t hard. During the – thankfully brief – periods that Bob and I were apart, I felt a nagging pain, as if there was something wrong with a part of me. It was only afterwards that I recognised what that meant.

The only friends you can lose are those who aren’t really friends at all.

You can never lose a true friend. Even if you are separated. That friendship lives on inside you. It is a part of each of you. It doesn’t go away.